MARDUK

Release Year: 2022
Artist Origin: SWE
Style: intense menacing black metal live

pulled from the archives one after the other, these concert recordings do not pretend to become the perfect benchmark for live sound - as the Official Bootleg Series title confirms, implying the idea of rough underground performance [this nine cut show comes from Essen, Germany on December 12, 2001], the feeling brings you back to the first half of the nineties, and only music reminds that some of these tracks are actually from much later phase; on the other hand, seasoned black metal fans will easily pick apart and appreciate each instrument and Swedish entity's ability to incite eerie demonic vibe in any situation they are thrown into; recent limited British gatefold sleeve black vinyl edition